Is Crysis 3 too demanding?

DrToffnar

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Whilst I thoroughly appreciate the idea of pushing graphical capabilities to the absolute limit, I am a little baffled that I can't quite stabilize Crysis 3. My system is pretty decent by todays standards. GTX 670 SLI (not OC'd) an i5 3570k (again, not OC'd) and 16GB of good ram running at 2400mhz. I had no issues with C1 and C2, my average fps being 84 from what I could tell and it would never drop below 60.

With Crysis 3 at the moment however I'm running it at high preset with post processing turned off and am quite often experiencing awful fps drops sometimes below 30...

Is it just a case of my system not quite hitting the mark? Or is Crysis 3 just poorly optimised compared to its predecessors?
 
DrToffnar said:
Whilst I thoroughly appreciate the idea of pushing graphical capabilities to the absolute limit, I am a little baffled that I can't quite stabilize Crysis 3. My system is pretty decent by todays standards. GTX 670 SLI (not OC'd) an i5 3570k (again, not OC'd) and 16GB of good ram running at 2400mhz. I had no issues with C1 and C2, my average fps being 84 from what I could tell and it would never drop below 60.

With Crysis 3 at the moment however I'm running it at high preset with post processing turned off and am quite often experiencing awful fps drops sometimes below 30...

Is it just a case of my system not quite hitting the mark? Or is Crysis 3 just poorly optimised compared to its predecessors?
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From what I can tell there are some issues with multi GPU setups at the moment. I'd expect these to be ironed out in the next few weeks.
 
I've decided I'm not going to obsess on image quality, I've just set it to Medium so I can get on and enjoy the game. It seems fine to me at that level.
 
PsychoPigeon said:
poorly optimized. My new system can't play this game at high which it should easily be able to do.
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I'm getting tired of people saying that because it is a hard game to run that it must be poorly optimized, you don't know that. When Crysis 1 was released people understood that it was hard to run because it was a demanding engine, people weren't going around shouting "POORLY OPTIMISED!!!!11!".
 
Well im running a single GTX 680 and have the settings on Very High with FXAA and I have it running at about 45 fps most the time.....sometimes it does drop in the areas with lots of grass (think this taxes my CPU hugely) as its hitting 78c sometimes which I never get on games.

I think the game looks absolutely stunning and not suprised that it cripples machines on top settings.

Id imagine it will improve with better drivers etc.
 
Bobisuruncle54 said:
From what I can tell there are some issues with multi GPU setups at the moment. I'd expect these to be ironed out in the next few weeks.
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I really hope so. I by no means need it to run at very high settings in order to play it, I'll enjoy he game at whatever setting it runs well at. It would just be great if I could play it with the beautiful visuals the game is capable of producing :(
 
At stock your system will be holding it back a bit too. Get an oc on your cpu and gpu's, should help as well.
 
setter said:
At stock your system will be holding it back a bit too. Get an oc on your cpu and gpu's, should help as well.
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I'd like to but I dont think my 650watt could handle it... and aside from the odd bit of tweaking on Precision I'v never really tried to overclock. Might be time to look up a few good guides...
 
Bobisuruncle54 said:
From what I can tell there are some issues with multi GPU setups at the moment. I'd expect these to be ironed out in the next few weeks.
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Multi-GPU setups being problematic is nothing new, i thought people would have learnt that by now. I can't say if the game is/isn't optimized well, but in my experience i would say it is optimized well, as i'm getting the FPS i expected to get at max detail with the second option in SMAA, which i've mentioned in the Crysis 3 thread both in this forum and the GPU forum.
 
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Rexton said:
I'm getting tired of people saying that because it is a hard game to run that it must be poorly optimized, you don't know that. When Crysis 1 was released people understood that it was hard to run because it was a demanding engine, people weren't going around shouting "POORLY OPTIMISED!!!!11!".
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That is EXACTLY what they were doing.
 
haha they cant win if they make a shoddy looking game which has 120 fps its crap if they make a great looking game that is hard to run its poorly optimized :rolleyes:

its the best looking video game ever ! what you expect lol

it runs very well just you need the proper big cards to play it or two tbh.
 
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People complain if it's too demanding, but then people also complain if its not demanding enough!

First of all, I would say that the game has only just come out.

Wait for a few more driver revisions and patches and I'm sure performance will improve a lot.

I'm not even confident that it has a fully working SLI profile yet??

Secondly, overclock your cards and cpu! You should be able to get those to about 680 standards, and that cpu is designed to be overclocked, get on it!

I run with 680sli on an i7 ivy bridge at 4.4ghz, and I am not getting the performance I would hope, but I am also running at 2560x1440, but I am sure that with new driver releases and patches the performance will improve.
 
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mine runs it on high settings without any optimisations didn't know so many people were having problems.

3570k @ 4.5 single 680 @ stock

IRT drtoffnar

a 650w psu should power any single card system with a moderate overclock.
 
Rexton said:
I'm getting tired of people saying that because it is a hard game to run that it must be poorly optimized, you don't know that. When Crysis 1 was released people understood that it was hard to run because it was a demanding engine, people weren't going around shouting "POORLY OPTIMISED!!!!11!".
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Yes they were, and it was. Crytek admitted this and said Warhead expansion would be better optimized.

Game runs fine on console, but even on 1280x1080 resolution on PC runs like a dog on high. I'm going to have to tweak a lot of settings to get it right then eventually be able to push onto ultra where it should be.
 
DrToffnar said:
I'd like to but I dont think my 650watt could handle it... and aside from the odd bit of tweaking on Precision I'v never really tried to overclock. Might be time to look up a few good guides...
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Overclocking the CPU wont really create that much extra stress on the PSU.....you can probably get away with upping the clocks quite a bit without even changing the vcore.
 
Davepen said:
People complain if it's too demanding, but then people also complain if its not demanding enough!

First of all, I would say that the game has only just come out.

Wait for a few more driver revisions and patches and I'm sure performance will improve a lot.

I'm not even confident that it has a fully working SLI profile yet??

Secondly, overclock your cards and cpu! You should be able to get those to about 680 standards, and that cpu is designed to be overclocked, get on it!
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